S. K. Satheesh

[12] Enrolling at Kerala University, he did his doctoral studies at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and after securing a PhD in 1997, he moved to the US for his post-doctoral work which was done at the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4) of Scripps Institution of Oceanography during 1998–2000.

[13] He is the incumbent chairman of Divecha Center For Climate Change, a research wing of IISc for climate-related studies.

[1] His brother-in-law, Jaivir singh is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and is currently a physics teacher at the Allen career institute.

[19][20][21] Dust Absorption Efficiency (DAE) is another area of focus of his researches and he has studied the topic in relation to Afro-Asian regions and Indian deserts.

[26] and Short wave versus long wave radiative forcing due to aerosol over Indian Ocean: Role of sea-surface winds,[27] were included in the AGU Highlights by the American Geophysical Union during 2002–03 and his article, Radiative Effects of Natural Aerosols: A Review[28] was listed as a Top 25 Hottest Article by ScienceDirect, an online scientific database.

[33] He was the principal investigator or co-principal investigator of the Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment (GVAX)[34] and Multi-Angle Polarization Imager (MAPI) of ISRO[35] and the Chief Mission Scientist of the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, Gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB) experiment of ISRO.

He was a co-convener of the National Space Science Symposium held at Kottayam in 2004 and the AOGS2014 conference organized by Asia Oceania Geosciences Society in Singapore in 2005.

[33] His contributions are also reported in the establishment of a South Asia regional office of Future Earth initiative at Divecha Centre for Climate Change in November 2016.

[37] Satheesh was one of the lead authors of the Chapter 7, Clouds and Aerosols, of the Fifth Assessment Report prepared by the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[38] and is a member of the selection committee (2013–16) of the Haagen-Smit Prize of Elsevier.